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23/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Salles gets up close to the beats in daring On the road adaptation

Brazilian director Walter Salles’ road movie of the Jack Kerouac modern classic novel On the road is in competition for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film ...

23/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Kylie, Eva Mendes and Mr Merde in Carax's Holy motors at Cannes

Léos Carax makes a bold, surprising comeback feature with Holy motors, the fourth film considered a French entry in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It’s his first feature since 1991.

23/05/2012

African press review 23 May 2012

The papers in Egypt are, understandably, dominated by election-related news. Voters go to the polls in the first round of the process to elect a new president today and tomorrow.

Interview: Yousry Nasrallah, director of After the battle
23/05/2012 - World news explained

Interview: Yousry Nasrallah, director of After the battle

The Egyptian offering in the main competition in Cannes this year is After the battle. It takes place in Cairo during the revolution of 2011.

The first African Shaolin
23/05/2012 - On-the-spot France

The first African Shaolin

Dominique Saatenang is not just any Kung Fu master. He is the first African and fourth non-Chinese to join the Shaolin Temple in China and to become its worldwide ambassador.

22/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

Brad Pitt in Killing them Softly

Another gangster film set in the US directed by film antipodean Andrew Dominik and starring Brad Pitt was screened in competition at the Cannes Film festival on Tuesday.

Interview: Tobias Lindholm, screenwriter of The Hunt
22/05/2012 - World news explained

Interview: Tobias Lindholm, screenwriter of The Hunt

After six days at the Cannes Film festival, critics are starting to talk about the films they consider likely to win a prize on Sunday.

21/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

You ain’t seen nothing yet in Cannes!

French director Alain Resnais at 90 years old shows at the Cannes Film Festival he’s still very much in the game.

Interview: Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch
21/05/2012 - World news explained

Interview: Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch

One of the films at the Cannes International Film Festival Chevaux de Dieux, Horses of God in  English, tries to throw a different light on the nature of Islamic fundamentalism and ...

20/05/2012 - Report: Cannes Film Festival 2012

From Cannes, with Love

Amour, or love in French, is the title of a film in the running for the Golden Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams is in Cannes where she reviewed the film.

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